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src/runtime/kwalletd/main.cpp (line 173)
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    Is this necessary? Shouldn't KWallet::Wallet::isOpen() fail nicely if the 
wallet isn't running?


- Boudhayan Gupta


On Oct. 16, 2015, 10:22 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 16, 2015, 10:22 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and Valentin Rusu.
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> Repository: kwallet
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> Description
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> A use-case: kwallet gets locked with lockscreen, eg. on Plasma Mobile, 
> unlocking the screen would also unlock kwallet through PAM.
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> Another use-case: automatic login that shows lockscreen after booting, 
> unlocking that session would also unlock kwallet through PAM.
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> This requires a small change in kwallet-pam.
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> Now to the patch itself. When a user authenticates via lockscreen, PAM can 
> start the kwalletd process and pass the auth hash token to it. In case the 
> kwalletd process is already running, this patch would check if the wallet is 
> opened and if not, it would pass the PAM hash token over dbus to the running 
> kwallet instance which would unlock the running wallet. If it is unlocked, 
> nothing would happen.
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> I originally didn't want to pass it over dbus, but in the end it doesn't 
> matter because as soon as the session is unlocked (at this point the hash is 
> sent), the wallet would be unlocked and a possible attacker would have access 
> to its data anyway. But I'm open to suggestions on improvements.
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> Diffs
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>   src/runtime/kwalletd/main.cpp fbab58d 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125641/diff/
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> Testing
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> I've created a special PAM profile which has
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> auth   optional        pam_kwallet5.so lockscreen 
> kwalletd=/opt/kde5/bin/kwalletd5
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> ran kcheckpass -c myprofile and kwallet5 got started and unlocked. Then I 
> locked the wallet using kwalletmanager5, ran kcheckpass -c myprofile again 
> and the running kwallet5 instance got unlocked.
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Klapetek
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